Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of mar ago 02 22:46:55 -0400 2011:
> I have created a documentation patch to clarify this, and to mention
> CREATE TABLE AS which also has this optimization.
It doesn't seem particularly better to me. How about something like
In minimal level, WAL-logging of some operations can be safely skipped,
which can make those operations much faster (see <blah>). Operations on
which this optimization can be applied include:
<simplelist>
<item>CREATE INDEX</item>
<item>CLUSTER</item>
<item>CREATE TABLE AS</item>
<item>COPY, when tables that were created or truncated in the same
transaction
</simplelist>
Minimal WAL does not contain enough information to reconstruct the data
from a base backup and the WAL logs, so either <literal>archive</> or
<literal>hot_standby</> level must be used to enable ...
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